The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-24

You must attend to this at once"
'.What shall do!" asked ThyrZa.
Now, drainage was the young doctors
hobby, and he plunged forthwith into plans
and measurements. He went with ThyrZa
to see some lumber, stored in an clubhouse,
which he pronounced just the thing, and
before he went away the course Of the drain
was marked out, and the digging already
begun.
81 declare" said Hetty, two days later,
when, for the first time in her life, she
poured pan Of water into the kitchen sink,
''just think Of the hogsheads Of water we
have carried across the back kitchen and
the length of the porch 1 wonder our backs
| are not broken. And see how easily this
drain has been made, and how little it has
! cost 1t is a shame to let women work so
hard"
Mr.. Fuller pulled up very slowly from his
| second attack Of fever. November had be-
| gun before he was able to sit up. He had
come through his irritability, and was now
| thoroughly respondent. He dared not think
what condition the farm must be in. True,
his wife assured him it was all right, but
then she was only woman, and could not
Know. He thought of the Doctors bill, of
the interest and the taxes, and he groaned
in real distress. How he repented buying
that meadow He resolved to sell it az ain
as soon as he got about, and to keep out OF
debt in future. Anxiety about his money
matters preyed upon his spirits and re-
| tarded his recovery.
Father, the doctor says you may come
out to dinner with US Thanksgiving day."
| said his wife cheerily, few days before
that festival.
20 mother" he groanci, don't waste no
money maxim Thanksgivin' this year. /
don't see where the moneys to come from
| to pay the bills. wish I'd listened to you
about buyin' tibet land"
30, we must make little Thanksgivin',
| father. We are all so thankful have you
| up again." answered his wife, secretly
| much surprised at this concession, the first
he had ever made that she had been the
wisest "And the moneys all right father.
Just wait till Thyrza can tell you about it;
she knowsn
20 Lord, how can she know!" groaned
the old man. ''She's nothing but gal"
But he felt too weak and discouraged to
demonstrate further, and Thanksgiving
preparations went on apace, while he fretted
and mourned in his room, and even shed
few tears when there was no one to see
him.
him in his best suit, which hung loosely on
his emaciated figure, and leaning on
Abrams strong arm, he crept painfully
across the hall to the excepting room" The
bright morning sun shone IN at the eastern
windows, lighting up the room, which
seemed strangely unfamiliar The furni-
ture was the same, but the lounge and his
favorite rocking chair had fresh chintz COW
ers; pretty new paper covered the walls,
few pictures hung about, and stand of
| house-plants stood before one of the win
| dows.
snow, sit right down before the fire,
father" said his wife, land Thyrza will
come in and talk to you"
Left alone he looked about the room
wonderingly. 1t was prettier than before
he grudgingly admitted, but it must have
cost power OF money. Women couldn't
be trusted, he said to himself. o, why
couldn't he have had boyi Then the door
opened and ThvrZa came in, radiant in q
new blue merino and with pretty color on
| her cheeks and a soft light in her dark
gray eyes.
''Don't you think it's nice in here.
fatherl" she said. ave fixed the room ur
in honor of your coming out to-day"
''It's nice enough" he answered, "but.
Thyrza, it must have cost a great deal OF
money"
'It's all paid for father"
'But you'd oughter saved the money
There's the Doctors bill -"
''It's paid, father"
'And interest, and the mems Wages
''All paid.''
HAnd taxes -"
"Partly paid, and the rest provided for.r
"You're foolin' me, ThyrzaI"
''No, father, am telling you the truth
''Well l swamp
Then Thyrza told him the story Of the
summer.
sit is all down III these books. You car
look them over when you feel like it. We
took in all for milk about sou; but $50 OF
that we paid cut for milk we bought. ]
sold the old hay for SGD, and the new crot
was so large could not get it all into tht
barns, and the Willards took what l could
not house and paid me $50. So that makes
$3.50 have taken. The doctors bill was
$50, the mems wages were 1915. l have
paid all these, and the interest, all the store
bills, and SIS on taxes"
'Why, Thyrza, can't hardly believe itp.
said the old man.
1.-THE barns are full of hay" she went on
ave put 80 bushels of corn in the corr
| barn. The oats are not threshed yet, but
| there won't be less than 400 bushels
There's fifty bushels of white beans ano
half dozen of the prettiest fat cattle YOU
ever saw. And, father" she added, the
color deepening on her cheeks, young DR..
Gerrish, who tended you when you were
sick, is coming to dinner to-day, and he
wants to talk to you"
Then Thyrza escaped by one door as DR.
| Gerrish came in at the other; and little
later Mr.. Fuller was saying: 'Tt's pretty
hard to ask me to give up my gal, when
haven't but just found out how much she i.
worth; but you must fix it up between We
shan't say word. Thyrza's a good gal.
Any man may be proud to get her."
Then came the dinner, when Mr. Fuller
| ate so much that Dr. Gerrish called him tt
| order, saying he would surely have a "a
| lapse; but he said: II shau't have any re
lapse; Pm goin' to get well right along
| now, Thyrza's taken such a load off mi
mind"
But when he was alone with his wife once
more, ne said in broken voice: 81 ex.
| pect Pve been leetle hard on you and the
gals, but I've learned a lesson to-day thai
shan't forgit. Well make things differ.
ent now"
And Mrs. Fuller, with true woman,s
heart, forgot and forgave every thing, and
was happier for the moment than she had
ever been since she married Jacob Fuller
Julia 4. Sabine, in WoD,an's Journal
A Bird Court and Trial.
The leaves on the tree were lust
coming out, and on one of the limbs, all
in row, sat ten or dozen little En-